Joshua Luna
10-05-2008, 10:09 AM
I am curious how others overcome formatting issues with the Bibleworks Hebrew font.
My problem is that the Bibleworks Hebrew font is quite small at size 10 or 12. At these sizes the font is nearly unreadable printed and is unreadable on screen. As 10-12 font size it also looks quite odd, as the letters only reach up about half way up the tallest English letters that are at that font size.
Size 16 and 18 "match" the size of the English fonts (e.g. Arial 10 and 12) much better but you run into other issues when doing this. The most notable is that it tends to mess up line spacing; this is especially noticeable when you have double spaced a text and the lines with Hebrew are spaced even wider. The Hebrew characters still appear to sit "low" as well.
The best formatting I have been able to come up with (in Word) is to:
1) Set the Bibleworks Hebrew font to size 16 (when using size 12 Arial).
2) Open the Font menu (highlight text, right click, select Font) and select the Character Spacing tab.
3) Change Position to Raised by 2 pts.
(Tip: If you highlight some text that is formatted by the BW Hebrew font when you right click one of the options, at least in Word 2003, is to select all similarly formatted text. By doing this you can edit all your Hebrew text in the document at one time.)
While this trick isn't perfect (the Hebrew text is slightly elevated off the baseline) the text is readable when printed, distinguishable on screen, and the spacing between lines isn't perfect it is close. Using size 18 Bwhebb font and size 12 Arial raising the Hebrew Font by 1 appears to work best. When working with size 10 Arial size 14 Bwhebb seems to work best (raised 1). 10 is typically what I use and anything above Bwhebb 14 seems too big and starts stretching the line spacing.
Anyhow, I am curious how others have worked around some of these minor presentation issues. :)
My problem is that the Bibleworks Hebrew font is quite small at size 10 or 12. At these sizes the font is nearly unreadable printed and is unreadable on screen. As 10-12 font size it also looks quite odd, as the letters only reach up about half way up the tallest English letters that are at that font size.
Size 16 and 18 "match" the size of the English fonts (e.g. Arial 10 and 12) much better but you run into other issues when doing this. The most notable is that it tends to mess up line spacing; this is especially noticeable when you have double spaced a text and the lines with Hebrew are spaced even wider. The Hebrew characters still appear to sit "low" as well.
The best formatting I have been able to come up with (in Word) is to:
1) Set the Bibleworks Hebrew font to size 16 (when using size 12 Arial).
2) Open the Font menu (highlight text, right click, select Font) and select the Character Spacing tab.
3) Change Position to Raised by 2 pts.
(Tip: If you highlight some text that is formatted by the BW Hebrew font when you right click one of the options, at least in Word 2003, is to select all similarly formatted text. By doing this you can edit all your Hebrew text in the document at one time.)
While this trick isn't perfect (the Hebrew text is slightly elevated off the baseline) the text is readable when printed, distinguishable on screen, and the spacing between lines isn't perfect it is close. Using size 18 Bwhebb font and size 12 Arial raising the Hebrew Font by 1 appears to work best. When working with size 10 Arial size 14 Bwhebb seems to work best (raised 1). 10 is typically what I use and anything above Bwhebb 14 seems too big and starts stretching the line spacing.
Anyhow, I am curious how others have worked around some of these minor presentation issues. :)